With a 70-minute running time, Carly Mensch's Len, Asleep in Vinyl, is brief enough not to send audience members into slumberland. But this bland new work, presented at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of Second Stage's "Uptown Series," offers few surprises and director Jackson Gay's mostly uninspired production doesn't do much to help Mensch's play be anything more than mildly amusing.

The paper-thin plot has aspiring musician Max (Daniel Eric Gold) arriving at the cabin of his famous record producer father, Len (Michael Cullen) -- and set designer Wilson Chin has taken to heart Max's description of Len as "a rock and roll Paul Bunyan" to create a somewhat rustic cabin environment that h[...]